Asheville, North Carolina

ON VIEW: FEBRUARY 3 - MAY 29, 2023

Too Much Is Just Right: The Legacy of Pattern and Decoration features more than 70 artworks in an array of media from both the original time frame of the Pattern and Decoration movement, as well as contemporary artworks created between 1985 and the present. The artworks in this exhibition demonstrate the vibrant and varied approaches to pattern and decoration in art. Sections will explore the history of pattern and decoration’s use in American art during and after the now formally recognized movement was established. Artworks from the 21st century elucidate contemporary perspectives on the employment of pattern to inform visual vocabularies and investigations of diverse themes in the present day. 

This exhibition is organized by the Asheville Art Museum and guest curated by Marilyn Laufer & Tom Butler.  

Online Exhibition

ON VIEW: FEBRUARY 1

While American artists like Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg have long been considered the progenitors of assemblage and collage art in the US, there is an extensive history of Black American artists working in the medium. In recent decades, the representation and inclusion of 20th-century artists like Romare Bearden and Betye Saar in cultural institutions and art collections have substantially increased. However, there is still more to be done to understand the Black American experience as expressed through the assemblage and collage art of emerging artists working today.

In this exhibition, these thoughtfully layered works reveal the deeply personal stories of the artists and move viewers to contemplate their own relationships with the subject matter and reused materials. The artists in this collection use their work to react to and comment on current social and political issues and contribute to the long tradition of assemblage and collage art made by Black American artists. Through the manipulation and reconfiguration of found and reused materials, these artists (like their predecessors) produce images of defiance that build up and unite their shared personal and cultural histories.

Curated by Aurora Garrison.

New Hope, Pennsylvania

ON VIEW: OCTOBER 8 - JANUARY 8, 2023

EXHIBITION HOURS: SATURDAY & SUNDAY 11:00AM - 4:00PM

Founders & Fellows presents a pictorial overview of the original New Hope Artist Colony and the artistic legacy of its Founders, the renowned Pennsylvania Impressionists William Lathrop, Edward Redfield, Daniel Garber and Morgan Colt – complemented by a showcase of the work of the contemporary artists invited to participate in the FIRST TEN, the inaugural “Fellows” of the New Hope Colony Artist Residency in 2021.

Chicago, Illinois

ON VIEW: JULY 16 - OCTOBER 17, 2022

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2022, 5:30PM - 7:30PM

Time is curious. We cannot see, touch, or taste it, yet we experience it through the motion of the sun, reverberation in music, and the changing of seasons. We measure time obsessively, and make it visible through the design of clocks, which convey graphic and information design through form, color, shape, lines, and typography. Clocks also demonstrate personality, foster innovation, and can even highlight power dynamics. Another curious thing about time is that it only moves one direction, forward. This exhibition serves as a reminder that despite our differences, time is one of the things that unites us all.

The Correct Time expands upon an artwork initiated in 1989 by Barbara Koenen collecting 720 donated broken clocks, one for each minute in 12 hours, because even a broken clock is right twice a day!Featuring works by Garth Roberts, Kyle Scott Lee, Lisa Hunt, Luam Maleke, Studio ANANSI and Studio & Projects.

New York, New York

ON VIEW: JUNE 9 - JUNE 25, 2022

GALLERY HOURS: THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY 1:00PM - 6:00PM

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2022, 6:00PM - 8:00PM

Each artist in the exhibition has found an oasis in their studio from the chaos of recent years. Amid tensions of global social-political crisis, our state of being has been in constant agitation as one concern after another has kept us on high alert. Be Still is a meditative counter to the irritation of our gaze by transitioning our field of view to a state of introspection.

The exhibition features artists Leslie Adler, Marcia Branca, Mona Brody, Mika Cali, Sarah Canfield, Lisa Hunt, Jonathan Lewis, Yvette Lucas, Donna Moran, Nan Ring, Rachel Pruzan, Paula Stark, Cynthia Vaughn, and Gail Winbury.

New York, New York

ON VIEW: JANUARY 29 - MARCH 19, 2022

“Like our foremothers, Black women printmakers have used the tools in our hands to create visual languages that tell the stories of our past, present, future and the in-between spaces within fractal time. A Contemporary Black Matriarchal Lineage in Printmaking explores the narratives of 9 contemporary Black women printmakers, living in the United States of America, who have shaped a place for themselves. Utilizing the elements of art, in an improvisational style, each printmaker shares matriarchal perspectives on Black interiority."

- Tanekeya Word

Featuring Works By:
Tanekeya Word, Delita Martin, LaToya Hobbs, Lisa Hunt, Ann Johnson, Karen J Revis, Chloe Alexander, Sam Vernon, and Stephanie Santana

Minneapolis, Minnesota

ON VIEW: SEPTEMBER 17 - DECEMBER 4, 2021

Highpoint is delighted to partner with Delita Martin and Tanekeya Word to deliver the exhibition A Contemporary Black Matriarchal Lineage in Printmaking. Curated by Tanekeya and Delita, this show centers the narratives of Black women printmakers, by Black women printmakers.

The exhibition will feature the work of the following 12 contemporary Black women printmakers from across the United States: Delita Martin, LaToya M. Hobbs, Ann Johnson, Althea Murphy-Price, Tyanna Buie, Karen J. Revis, Lisa Hunt, Tanekeya Word, Stephanie M. Santana, Chloe Alexander, Sam Vernon, Paula Wilson.

Guest curated by Tyanna J. Buie, Unraveled. Restructured. Revealed: Where Contemporary Art and Diverse Perspectives Intersect brings together over 60 contemporary artists from across Wisconsin, the country, and world exploring inclusion and diversity through art.

See the virtual exhibition here

FROM THE CURATOR:

What is inclusion and diversity today? We are recognizing more and more people and communities that have been marginalized for decades.

If we look at the word “marginalized,” we’re talking about a person, group, or concept that has been left out, treated as insignificant, and on the peripheral. When I think of those terms, I think about indigenous communities. I think about the L.G.B.T.Q.I.A and Latinx community, anyone from the African diaspora, and individuals who are dealing with immobility and visible/invisible disabilities.

In addition, inviting an African-American female artist to curate an exhibit in collaboration with Trout Museum of Art, is radical in and of itself. Offering me the space and opportunity to say; this is what has been missing. This is the void and we must do better.  I have no doubt that this exhibition will serve as an agent of change for inclusion and could not have happened at a more challenging time, while we are in the midst of a global pandemic and ongoing racial unrest.

- Tyanna Buie

Selected by Black Women of Print

Mapping Narratives features new prints and print-based works by 40 artists, comprising a wide array of technical, formal, and conceptual practices. Reflecting not only skill and innovation in the contemporary print field, these works also reveal myriad identities, ways of seeing, and approaches to visual storytelling. Together, they explore how we anchor ourselves, our histories, and our lived experiences in our present moment and environment.

ARTISTS

Adrianna Adams, Chloe Alexander, Kendyl Boyd, Tyanna Buie, Rachel Burgess, Alicia Calbet, Scout Cartagena, Babette Cooijmans, Caoimhe Dalton, Dexter Davis, Nancy Diessner, Deja Echols, Kyle Goen, Donté K. Hayes, Sara Hess, Justine Highsmith & Kalaija Mallery, Mu-Tien Ho, Lisa Hunt, Musa Kunene, Geneviève L'Heureux, Julie Lapping Rivera, Logan Larsen, Scott Magin, Louise Mandumbwa, Spriha Maurya, Michelle Melo, Diego Morales-Portillo, Diyah Najah, Rod Nelson, Karen Revis, Yelaine Rodriguez, Kristina Rogers, Birgitte Rubæk, Kaitlin Santoro, Jueun Shin, Robbie Sugg, Rhiannon Skye Tafoya, Alex R.M. Thompson, and Linda Whitney.

ABOUT THE JURY

Black Women of Print (BWoP) was founded in October 2018 by Tanekeya Word, a Black woman, visual artist, art educator, scholar, and fine art printmaker who resides in Milwaukee, WI. Word was interested in creating an equitable safe place for Black women printmakers who were underrepresented in the discipline of printmaking, a space that is eulogized as democratic. Black Women of Print is an African diaspora centered platform, a digital homeplace for independent, mid-career, and established skill level Black women printmakers. The organization serves as a place to support and promote the visibility of Black women printmakers and as a professional directory of Black women printmakers who practice within the field.